Max Murray-Brooks clinched promotion to become a second category rider at the Calshott Winter League promotion, near Southampton.

The Reading Cycling Club veteran finished a successful afternoon with a win in the senior Devil Take The Hindmost - where the last rider on each lap drops out - and a third place in the senior 70-lap 10km race.

But it was rising star Neil Cooper who stole the show yet again.

Riding in Reading CC colours, Cooper won four races on the steeply- banked 150m indoor track at Calshott.

The promotion started with a 28-lap warm up race which Cooper won, and he followed this with a win in the juniors, veterans and women's 2km race.

Murray-Brooks also finished third.

Cooper won through the preliminary rounds to come first in the five-lap senior sprint with his father Paul in fourth position.

The national junior sprint champion also won the unknown distance race for juniors, veterans and women.

Jon Mulholland rode in the London Cyclo-cross League event which was moved from Reigate to Hillingdon.

Over 50 riders plugged through atrocious clinging mud for an hour plus a lap.

Mulholland finished two laps down after making many stops to free his machine of mud, unlike sponsored teams where every rider had spare machines and helpers cleaning off mud.

To make the situation worse only the first five placings had been decided 45 minutes after the finish by which time Mulholland had to leave.

Race winner was international Stuart Blunt of Team Corridor.

First veteran was Mick Bell (London Fire Brigade), who also had a first five placings.